PP Awards 2008
CIPS Australia announces award finalists
CIPS Australia, is pleased to announce the finalists in this year’s Procurement Professional Awards. The 2nd CIPS Australia Procurement Professional Awards Dinner will be held during the 4th Annual CIPS Australia Conference at Crown Palladium, 14-15 October. The evening proceedings begin at 5.30pm on October 14 for cocktails and canapés, with the dinner starting at 7.30pm.
Tickets for conference or dinner only are available on www.cipsaconferences.com.au, email cipsa@bttbonline.com (best for group bookings) or call BTTB Marketing on +61 7 5573 7493. Tickets for the dinner are $145 + GST per person.
Only in its second year, entries for the Procurement Professional Awards have increased dramatically, suggesting the procurement profession is embracing this new way to demonstrate best practices.
The finalists for each category this year are:
Best Example of Socially Responsible Procurement.
Westpac, Insurance Australia Group (IAG) and Department of Treasury & Finance WA
Best Cross-Functional Teamwork project
AMP and Mercy Health
Best Supplier Partnership
This category has awarded only one finalist. To be announced on 14 October.
Best People Development Initiative
Department of Treasury & Finance WA and Rio Tinto
Young Procurement Professional of the Year
Simon Goodman (British American Tobacco Australia), Kristina Matthews (Lion Nathan) and Radika Muhandirmage – (Department of Treasury & Finance WA)
Best Process Improvement Initiative
Santos and Metropolitan Fire & Emergency Services Board (MFB)
Most Improved Procurement Operation
SP AusNet, Santos, BIS Industries Ltd and Alcatel-Lucent
Thank you to all entrants this year and special congratulations to all finalists. We look forward to seeing everyone at CIPS Australia’s annual awards dinner on 14 October.
For full conference details please:
Click here to download brochure in PDF format
Click here to view programme online
Welcome to the 2nd Annual CIPS Australia Procurement Professional Awards 2008.
- Introduction - A new way to demonstrate best practice
- 2008 Award Categories
- Tips on Entering - from Chair of Judges - Jim McGuire MCIPS
- Benefits of entering & winning AND How to Enter
- Sponsors
- Entry Form (PDF)
- Entry Form (Word)
- Full brochure for download
- Sample Winning Entries from 2007
A new way to demonstrate best practice
Following the success of our inaugural Procurement Professional Awards programme last year, we are delighted to be launching the 2nd annual awards. I am sure that these awards will build their successful base and grow substantially in future years – as the prestigious CIPS Supply Management Awards have in the UK over the last ten years.
This awards programme successfully highlights the valuable contribution that our profession is making to organisations throughout the private and public sector. This recognition is not only beneficial to the confidence and career progression of individuals working in the profession, but also for their organisations and stakeholders as it will highlight the direct and wide ranging benefits of the procurement contribution. This awards programme is a modern way to demonstrate best practice for everyone’s benefit.
Procurement may be the fastest growing profession in business, but its individual practitioners rarely promote their hard-earned achievements or accept due recognition. It is still not really part of our procurement ‘culture.’
The 2nd Annual CIPS Australia Procurement Professional Awards are a step in the right direction towards correcting this imbalance. The judging criteria for the awards will recognise the broad range of skill areas in which procurement professionals excel - including project management, negotiation, supplier management, cost reduction, process improvement, individual initiative and teamwork. In a word it will recognise contribution.
The award categories themselves highlight the surprisingly wide range of vital activities that are undertaken within organisations by procurement professionals, from maintaining supplier partnerships to process improvement and from cross-functional initiatives to developing their own professionalism – all built upon the management of the organisation’s external resource base.
This call for entries is an interim release, with the full printed version due out in early June. Please do not be shy. Enter the awards by 15 August 2008, for the benefit of your stakeholders and your organisation – not just yourself.
Show us a new way to demonstrate best practice. Both the new CIPS CEO, Simon Sperryn, and I look forward to seeing you at the Awards dinner.
We look forward to celebrating the successes that will doubtless be richly deserved.
Jonathan Dutton FCIPS
Managing Director
CIPS Australia
2008 Award Categories
Best Example of Socially Responsible Procurement
This category encompasses externally-focused social, ethical, sustainable, environmental and community initiatives in a supply chain context. The judges will be looking specifically at the role a procurement or supply management function has played in safeguarding or enhancing an organisation’s reputation and brand values in an SRP context - throughout the supply chain.
Sponsored by: Capgemini
Finalists for 2008: Westpac, Insurance Australia Group (IAG) and Department of Treasury & Finance WA
Best Cross-Functional Teamwork Project
Entries in this category should demonstrate how a procurement or supply management team has worked effectively with another team or business unit from the same organisation to achieve a mutual goal.
Sponsored by: Kelly Outsourcing & Consulting Group
Finalists for 2008: AMP and Mercy Health
Best People Development Initiative
This category covers training or development programmes that have substantially raised the understanding and/or skills of the procurement or supply management team, and helped to deliver real improvements in performance.
Sponsored by: Michael Page Procurement & Supply Chain
Finalists for 2008: Department of Treasury & Finance WA and Rio Tinto
Best Process Improvement Initiative
Entries in this category should focus on how procurement or supply management processes have been upgraded or changed, and the resulting improvements from adopting them.
Sponsored by: Comensura
Finalists for 2008: Santos and Metropolitan Fire & Emergency Services Board (MFB)
Best Supplier Partnership
This category requires a joint entry by the procurement team and their supplier. The entry should primarily explain how the two organisations have worked together and what the benefits have occurred for both parties.
Sponsored by: Blue Star Print Group
Finalists for 2008: This category has awarded only one finalist. To be announced on 14 October.
Most Improved Procurement Operation
Judges will be looking for evidence of success from a procurement function that has undergone a substantial improvement. This could be an entirely new department where little or no professional procurement has previously existed; alternatively it could be an established team undergoing radical change.
Sponsored by: Rio Tinto Procurement
Finalists for 2008: SP AusNet, Santos, BIS Industries Ltd and Alcatel-Lucent
Young Procurement Professional of the Year
Open to those aged 30 or under when the project or initiative was started, the judges will look for evidence of achievement that is significant and beyond what is normally expected from managers of this age and experience. The impact upon the organisation is more likely to be at an operational or functional rather than strategic level. The judges will also look for evidence of further potential, evidence of further study of procurement or commitment to the subject as well as their wider contribution to their team. Nominations may be submitted by an organisation or an individual on behalf of themselves or another person, with their prior permission.
Sponsored by: ProcureNet
Finalists for 2008: Simon Goodman (British American Tobacco Australia), Kristina Matthews (Lion Nathan) and Radika Muhandirmage – (Department of Treasury & Finance WA)
The CIPS Leadership Award
A special award presented by CIPS Australia to the organisation or person who has offered an exceptional contribution to the profession over the year. It may be presented to one of the category winners, or to a deserving person or organisation that has made a special contribution to the profession or demonstrated outstanding leadership of thought or action.
Tips on Entering - from Chair of Judges - Jim McGuire MCIPS
Jim McGuire, Chair of Judges, offers some tips on how to improve your chances of winning
It is an honour to again be chairing the judging panel for The 2nd Annual CIPS Australia Procurement Professional Awards. I am looking forward to reading the numerous high-quality entries which your organisations will undoubtedly be submitting. I’d like to take this opportunity to provide you with some tips that should help you prepare your entries for the 2008 Awards. While I cannot guarantee that these tips will ensure success, I am certain that, if followed, they will significantly increase your chances!
Jim McGuire MCIPS
Chair of Judges
Click here to read the Tips on Entering
Benefits of entering & winning AND How to Enter
Click here to read about the benefits of entering and How to Enter.
Sponsors
Blue Star Print Group
Blue Star Print Group a leading trans-Tasman print, communications and related services providers. We offer intelligent, pro-active and thoughtful ways to achieve results for our clients. Blue Star’s breadth of capabilities, combined with the ability to offer a customised solution, is what sets us apart from any other print management specialists in the field. Our specialist business units dovetail to provide our customers with a ‘perfect fit’ service capability, which means no matter how large or how small your requirements, we can provide a scalable solution that’s just right for you.
Our comprehensive service offering includes: design/desktop publishing; mail services; telemarketing fulfilment; digital, offset and web printing; warehousing, inventory management and distribution. These solutions are underpinned by a sophisticated e-commerce capability providing user-friendly online tools for our customers.
Allow us to take the effort out of managing your print supply chain.
Proudly Sponsoring: Best Supplier Partnership
For more information visit www.bspg.com.au
Capgemini
In all businesses, a company’s procurement function is often an area in which cost reductions are possible but can appear unattainable. Reality is that procurement is a complex function that touches nearly every aspect of the enterprise. Many companies spend 40-60% of their total budgets on third-party materials and services. However, there is immense opportunity within a company’s procurement function to not just reduce cost, but dramatically improve overall business performance. Business Process Outsourcing is an innovative way of meeting these challenges. Collaborating for value is Capgemini’s ethos; nowhere is this more prevalent than in a procurement BPO arrangement.
Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of Consulting, Technology and Outsourcing services, has a unique way of working with its clients; The Collaborative Business Experience, which is backed by four decades of industry and service experience is designed to help our clients achieve better, faster, more sustainable results.
Proudly sponsoring: Best Example of Socially Responsible Procurement
For more information visit www.au.capgemini.com
Comensura
Comensura is a multinational procurement solutions organisation that provide managed services in a range of procurement categories to government and corporate clients. Comensura’s leading web based application combined with category and procurement expertise enables clients to achieve significant and sustainable direct cost savings while process systemisation and workflow automation improves the efficiency of their business.
Proudly sponsoring: Best Process Improvement Initiative
Comensura – A smarter way to work.
For more information visit www.comensura.com.au
Phone: 02 8923 2599
Email: enquiry@comensura.com.au
Kelly Outsourcing & Consulting
Kelly Outsourcing and Consulting Group is a business unit of global staffing provider - Kelly Services. Launched in 2000, Kelly Outsourcing and Consulting Group dedicates invaluable expertise through four specialist divisions:
- Recruitment Process Outsourcing
- Contingent Workforce Consulting
- Human Capital Solutions
- Business Process Outsourcing
When your business needs to extend beyond your core competencies, Kelly Outsourcing & Consulting Group has a range of expertise to help you regain your focus. Each program is structured to help reduce overheads and improve productivity.
If it's outside your scope, it's probably within ours. For more information contact Toni Jackson, Kelly Outsourcing and Consulting Group, +61 2 9246 6700 or email toni_jackson@kellyservices.com
Proudly sponsoring: Best Cross-Functional Teamwork Project
For more information visit www.kellyservices.com
Michael Page Procurement & Supply Chain
Opening offices in Australia in 1985, Michael Page has since cemented its position as a leading professional recruiter. Michael Page Procurement & Supply Chain is a specialist business line with a team of experienced consultants who focus solely on recruiting for this sector.
Our success is founded on a thorough understanding of local market in Australia, the stability of our management team and our ability to source a consistent stream of quality professionals.
Michael Page Procurement & Supply Chain works with clients from a wide range of industries such as FMCG, retail, industrial manufacturing, consulting, distribution and financial services.
We recruit at all levels of experience across the following areas:
- Purchasing / Procurement
- Strategic Sourcing
- Vendor Management
- Contract Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Planning & Forecasting
- Logistics
- Warehousing
- Inventory Management
- Distribution, Transport & Shipping
- Consulting
Proudly sponsoring: Best People Development Initiative
For more information visit www.michaelpage.com.au
ProcureNet
ProcureNet provides permanent recruitment and temporary contract labour hire services, specialising in the Supply Chain - Project and Strategic Procurement, Purchasing, Inventory Control, Cataloguing, Warehousing, Logistics, Expediting, and Contract Administration.
ProcureNet's specialist consultants have first-hand knowledge of your staff requirements, which translates into an expert team committed to finding the right person for your business.
How does it work? Simply tell us the role you need to fill, and we'll do the rest! We will screen candidates from our database of over 2,500 specialist applicants, conduct comprehensive reference checks, and deliver a shortlist of high-calibre candidates for your final selection.
Proudly sponsoring: Young Procurement Professional of the Year
For more information visit www.procurenet.com.au
Rio Tinto Procurement
Rio Tinto Procurement is at the centre of today's supply
chain management revolution. Our success is based on
our employees who share a common commitment to
innovation and creativity and work together in a
collaborative, dynamic and rewarding environment.
Rio Tinto Procurement boasts a strong and experienced
leadership team, excellent technologies, supply chain
expertise and strong professional training to ensure
our employees are provided with the opportunities
and tools to become recognised supply chain leaders.
Proudly sponsoring: Most Improved Procurement Operation
For more information visit www.procurement.riotinto.com.
Sample winning entries from 2007
BAE Systems - Submission Best People Development Initiative 2007
Department of Treasury & Finance WA - Submission for Best Process Improvement Initiative
IAG & Blue Star Print Group - Submission for Best Supplier Partnership
Special Achievement Award Winners.
Although the University of Sydney didn't win a category award, they did receive a Special Achievement Award for recognition of the procurement change management effort across a range of award categories. Their submissions for Best Process Improvement Initiative and Best Cross-Functional Teamwork Project are attached.
